We were home sick for New Year's Eve. Instead of feeling horribly sorry for ourselves, we bunkered down with a Victoria Mars dvd and ate New Years Food. Oh! And there was Boggle!

Try to contain your jealousy.

New Years Food is food that you are eating only because you know that you are going to start dieting and exercising the very next day.

We happened to have a jar of sundried tomatoes and a new block of cream cheese in the fridge. I thought to myself: "hey, I like sundried tomatoes. I like cream cheese," (I'm a big thinker). So I compiled the two into the very bestest dip ever.

I preheated our little 1.5 quart slow cooker that I scored for $4.95 at Walmart on Black Friday a few years ago.I chopped up the jar of sundried tomatoesthe vitamix. not just for kick-ass margaritas

and plunked them on top of the cream cheese and kept it on high for 2 hours. After a quick stir, the dip was done.

It was amazing. Even better than you would imagine. I should patent this or something and sell it for bazillions.

We ate it with tortilla chips because we happen to be a gluten-free family, but I imagine it would taste amazing on some sourdough.It was so good that when the kids asked "How long 'till New Years?" at 7:15, Adam and I both replied without thinking, "10 minutes," and set the clocks ahead. Just so we could eat it all ourselves.

*SIGH* I tried this dip recipe and it was a DISASTER. I even bought a 1.5 quart mini crockpot/slowcooker for this recipe. I chopped up a bag of sundried tomatoes and put them on top of a block of cream cheese. I put the cooker on high and came back 2 hours later. I stirred and it was clumped into a super ball of pinkness with chunks of red. It burned pretty badly and believe me when I say it tasted BAD :( grr.

So, Steph, did you use the jar of sundried tomatoes in "olive oil"? And did you dump the whole jar WITH the olive oil into the mini cooker? I think that may have been my dipping flaw. Bcuz I just used a bag of sundried tomatoes. I can't believe I messed this super easy recipe up. I thought I read the directions on the blog. I feel like a complete dork. :P

I am so sorry, Crickette. I've totally done the same thing---thought I read something when I'm at the store...ugh.yup, my sundried tomatoes were packed in oil in the jar.I'm sure you could use reconstituted dried tomatoes, but there isn't enough moisture for them to get soft and squishy on their own.

Will this fit in the mini dipper (the fondue crock)? Also, while I'm posting, when you say you can use a smaller oven-safe dish inside a bigger crock pot, do you just put it straight in without any water on the outside (unless otherwise specified)? Thanks!

I think you should use about 3/4 of the block of cream cheese and the drained and chopped tomatoes in the Little Dipper. A whole block of cream cheese will fit in it (I've tried), but I'm not sure how it will fit with the tomatoes.

For the oven-safe dish, yes. Put it directly into your stoneware with no water, and heat both up together.

I DID IT!! I DID IT!!! SUCCESS I TELL YOU!!! SUCCESS!!! I RE-DID the Sundried Tomato CrockPot Dip and it turned out great. This time I bought the Sundried tomatoes in a jar of olive oil. THIS IS KEY for the recipe to work out. DO NOT buy the reqular sundried tomatoes in a bag w/out the oil. Then I basically eye balled the amount of tomatoes to chop up and put them on TOP of the block of cream cheese in my mini crockpot. I put the dip on High for about 20 minutes. Bcuz my mini-cooker is an over achiever feels he needs to cook much faster than all the other "slow" cookers I didn't need to heat the dip for 2 hrs. I've named him Gonzo (anyways...I'm sure that's too much information). Moving on. I stirred and then added more chopped tomatoes AND added some of the olive oil from the jar they came in and stirred. I place on low for 20 more minutes and stirred again and added more olive oil bcuz the dip was looking a tad dry and VOILA! I was the master of Sundried Tomato Dip! Really. I was. All the boys ate it and loved it with tortilla chips. And they carried me on their shoulders chanting "Crickette is the master of Sundried Tomato Dip!" And guess what else. This dip tastes great with Ranch flavored Ruffles or Lays. THE END